The vast majority of people with extensively drug-resistant
tuberculosis (XDR-TB) diagnosed in the world’s most extensive outbreak have
acquired their infection from another person, not as the result of the failure
of treatment ...

Among some highly promising results from HIV prevention
studies presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015) in Seattle, USA, today, there was one disappointment.
FACTS 001, a study ...

Implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation of
three-drug antiretroviral treatment during pregnancy leads to a significantly
lower rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission, a 7-country randomised study
has shown. The results of the ...

A large proportion of women in sub-Saharan Africa who are at
high risk of transmitting HIV to their infants during breastfeeding are likely
still to be undiagnosed, if results
of a large three-country ...

HIV-positive
patients can safely receive kidneys from deceased HIV-infected donors, investigators
from South Africa report in the February 12th edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Survival rates one, three and ...

The final published paper on the VOICE trial in women in three
African countries mainly reinforces what conference presentations have already
shown: this ambitious trial failed to demonstrate the effectiveness of either
oral ...

The idea that AIDS was created as part of a government-led
conspiracy to decimate the African American population remains salient to a
significant minority of black people, according to qualitative research
published in ...

UNAIDS Statistics

HIV Prevalence: 17.8%

5 600 000 people living with HIV

310 000 deaths from AIDS in 2009

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